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Quote by Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

Category:
Literary
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Jane Austen
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

Category:
Humility
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Jane Austen
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Other Quotes from
Men & Women
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Men & Women

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

Category:
Men & Women

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

Category:
Men & Women

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. – Nancy Astor

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Men & Women

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A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Category:
Attitude

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Age

I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dads music, there just seemed to be elements missing. – Dweezil Zappa

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dad

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

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Ideas